Distribution Development

Benchmarking Gentoo and Ubuntu..."As previously discussed on Linux Magazine, Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the end user decide what their system will be. "All binary distributions make these choices for you, but building from source, Gentoo users can decide for themselves. They are able to choose what CPU their binaries will be built for, as well as GCC optimizations." [Read More at Linux Magazine]... [more]

In the Ubuntu world, we release a new version of Ubuntu every six months, and inside each Ubuntu release cycle we cram in a huge amount of work. Through the cycle there is a sync with Debian, a merge of our patches, six alpha releases, a beta, a release candidate and all the feature development, bug fixing and other work that goes into making our favorite Operating System.By Jono BaconCommunity Manager, Canonical

Now that the code for Canonical Ltd.’s Launchpad open source development hosting community was released as open source last week, the company hopes that developers who may have stayed away from Launchpad in the past will take a new look.

The scope of the software appliance market just got bigger today with the latest product announcement from Novell: now independent software vendors (ISVs) will have full-stack access to tools that will enable them to create their own software appliances from start to finish.

After nearly 2 and a half years of planning, Novell has revamped its entire SUSE enterprise product line, with today's release of the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 platform.

It's been nearly two and a half years since Oracle announced their Oracle Unbreakable Linux program. Flash forward to present day, Oracle is still facing a strong perception in the community and tech media that "Unbreakable's" mission is to make new Oracle customers solely at the expense of Red Hat.A perception Oracle really wants to change.

As Spring approaches, people prepare to welcome the warm weather, the singing robins, and the return of ballots to vote for the new Debian Project Leader. The election of the Project Leader for the Debian Project has become an annual spring rite, conducted in April since 2001 though in other months prior to that. And, like much of the painstaking drive for quality in the development of Debian, the election is one of the most meticulously run democratic exercises you will ever see.

The Linux Foundation today announced it is publishing a new report written by Amanda McPherson, Brian Proffitt, and Ron Hale-Evans on the value of Linux development. The paper, "Estimating the Total Development Cost of a Linux Distribution," finds that it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today's dollars with today's software development costs. It would take $1.4 billion to develop the Linux kernel alone.... [more]